March - May 2015 Ebola Virus News Articles (E)
America Has Another Ebola Patient
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/American-Ebola-Patient-Treated-National-Institutes-Health-Hospital-Bethesda-Maryland/387727/
America Has Another Ebola Patient
A healthcare volunteer in Sierra Leone has been flown to Maryland for treatment after contracting the virus.
Adam Chandler Mar 13 2015, 12:42 PM ET
The Atlantic
America Has Another Ebola Patient
On Thursday, health officials confirmed that an American volunteer in Sierra Leone had contracted Ebola and would be flown to a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland for treatment. The unidentified patient is the first American to be diagnosed with the virus since October, when a New York doctor's case was confirmed.
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Despite a precipitous drop in cases—the latest Ebola report by the World Health Organization counted fewer than 60 new confirmed cases in Sierra Leone and Guinea in March and none in Liberia—the death toll in the largest-ever outbreak also passed a grim benchmark on Thursday with 10,000 recorded deaths in West Africa.
"This thing isn’t over yet," former Ebola Czar Ron Klain told Vox last week. "Even though we got cases down in Liberia, Ebola could come back so building the Ebola treatment units for future outbreaks of Ebola ostensibly is a very useful thing."
NIH Building 10
Hospital Clinic
Bethesda, Maryland
NIH Hospital
Building 10
Bethesda, Maryland
Has anyone heard about the condition of the Ebola patient admited here at NIH on Friday, March 13? The last report from NIH was that the patients condition was downgraded from serious to critical on Monday, March 16th. It is uncanny that there has been no further news as to the patients condition. Between 7 to 11 days from the first appearance of sysmptoms a prognosis for survival is usually determined. Lets keep the Ebola patient in our prayers.
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